... access falls apart," said John Girard, a Gartner analyst. "Backbones will be affected, but the network ... wireless connection such as 3G or Wimax or satellite. Even so, Gartner said to assume that wireless services might also be overused in an emergency ... airing concerns about network readiness, although the focus of Gartner's comments was on businesses -- not how the government should work ...

... . Peter Sondergaard, Senior Vice President at Gartner and Global Head of Research, said that this represented a fast V- ... 2.3 percent). While IT spending will increase next year, Gartner cautioned IT leaders not to be overly optimistic. “While ... from owned to shared IT,” he said. The third most-searched terms on gartner.com were business applications such as enterprise resource planning ( ...

... existing business models. Based upon this information, Gartner predicts the number one "killer ... thing for smartphones. It already exists in a number of other markets, but Gartner says the regulatory kinks need to be worked out before it can truly flourish. " ... passed in front of a reader for instant transactions. Gartner says the main difficulty in propagating any of these money-related ...

... inception of Acquia, is talking to analyst firms like Gartner, Forrester, and the 451group about Drupal, and all of Drupal' ... people, but I've been in several analyst calls myself. Recently, Gartner has included Drupal into its Magic Quadrant reports ... technology choice. Instead, those large businesses call Gartner, or any of the other analyst firms, to get advice on what technologies to adopt ...

... ’s hard to argue with that. As I have mentioned before, there are many people who dislike Gartner and its influence over the IT industry and claim that its Magic Quadrants are more ... switching or wireless LAN, but everyone still wants to know the nitty gritty about the Quadrant. So what could Gartner do to reduce criticism? Well, how about more disclosure? Exactly how does that magic box get ...

... will eventually lead to a positive move away from the status quo. However, a few of the Gartner responses seem to also indicate that there is still an inexplicable tendency to recommend strategies such as ... that continue to struggle with over bloated under-performing initiatives, or Gartner themselves? The above issues not withstanding, I find that for the first time in quite awhile an analyst ...